Reply to http://community.livejournal.com/nopity/287890.html, because somehow I never directly joined the community. (I've submitted a request, but it'll probably take all day & I'll be at work and all that; don't want to lose this in the meantime.)

I came across a comment about rape in RPGs on a gaming forum, quite a while back--The Inevitably- ( Read more... )

About 650 days ago (sounds like a relevant number, right? Much better than "a bit less than two years ago") misia posted the original No Pity, No Shame, No Silence post. (Don't bother clicking; it's not there now. Or at least, not there to the general public.)

I never saw her post; I saw the flurry of posts on my friendslist about it, and wrote one of ( Read more... )

An excerpt from a thread about how rape is/should be treated in fantasy RPG's like D&D.
From Gamegrene.com:

The reason role-played rape is so much nastier than any other role-played crime, including murder, is that rape isn't really best described as either a violent crime or a sexual crime, but a mental/emotional crime. Rape is entirely a crime ( Read more... )

Inspired by an ongoing discussion/debate at a friend's journal, which has all the usual drama: several women who agree that rape is awful, that it's a lot more common than most men want to realize (hell, it's more common than *we* want to realize), and that Something Must Be Done... and the obligatory guy or two who keeps talking about people whose ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to directly participate in this meme, because my experience(s?) with non-consensual sex weren't major, weren't particularly traumatic. I didn't have nightmares over them (err, "it;" one that's clear, and a couple of encounters that I could interpret that way if I were so inclined, which I'm generally not; I'm only talking about one ( Read more... )